In the first novel of Beth Wiseman’s new Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance. Yvonne Wilson arrives in Montgomery, Indiana, determined to purchase a rare book on behalf of a client willing to pay her an absurd amount of money for her efforts. Engaged to be married […]
For seven years, I worked as an assistant to Shelley Shepard Gray. In 2016, I started writing a story in an effort to help our daughters through their grief after losing two grandparents. Inspiration for the story originated from an image of a “Love Letters” or “Love Notes” quilt I saw on Facebook. The main […]
Thanks so much for visiting Destination Amish, Mindy! Tell us about your new book, An Amish Flower Farm. It’s Hallmark and Amish fiction, in one book!!! A coming of age, love story. You have Belinda Graber, a young woman who grows beautiful things. Encouraged by her family to work closer to her hopes of owning […]
The Moonlight School – Just the Recess That’s Needed During these covid times of isolation, it is so nice to have a welcoming distraction from the cares of our present world. When I received my copy of Suzanne Woods Fisher’s latest release, The Moonlight School, it was just what I needed. Filled with wonderful characters, […]
Welcome to Holmes County, the setting of my newest book, “Softly Blows the Bugle.” This is the third book in the series, The Amish of Weaver’s Creek, set in a fictional corner of Holmes County during the Civil War. The first two books tell the stories of Jonas Weaver, who left home to join the […]
What I admire most about the Amish faith is the emphasis on forgiveness. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve always had a tendency to hold grudges, and moving past that has been a struggle. In TURNING HOME, I loved writing about a woman who has the best reason in the world to hold onto anger, but […]
For most people, the holidays are about coming “home.” For some people, it might be returning to the house where they grew up. They revisit their parents or grandparents, amazed to realize how small the house appears after so many decades. I know I was shocked when I returned to my childhood house. The rooms […]
When I write a book, it’s important to me to create a setting that readers can connect with—a place, a feeling, an aura that enables them to create an image in their heads (with help from my words) so vivid, they actually feel as if they are wherever the main character happens to be in […]
Described as “poignant and beautifully written,” my May release is a story about a man who isn’t sure he can return home again after all he’s experienced with the English, and a woman who can’t quite forgive him for tearing her family apart. Sadie knows exactly what she needs—a stable, Amish husband, and Elijah is […]
When I wrote An Empty Cup, it was during a very difficult period for me. I wasn’t certain how my readers would take to the story line which, at the time, mirrored my own life. So many readers, however, wrote to me to confide that they felt as if they were Rosanna Yoder when, in […]